This Friday's featured artist is Camille Tartakowsky and her intricate paper sculptures incorporating atlas pages!

Makes me want to get out my vintage atlases and start collaging!
​See more of ​Camille Tartakowsky's amazing art on her website at https://camilletartakowsky.wordpress.com!

Have a great weekend!

This Friday's featured artist is Kate Bauer of Milk and Honeybread and her lovely watercolor map paintings!

​I love how the pigments flow and blend together in her paintings! Kate is also a poet, and that sense of lyricism seems to permeate her paintings, too!

See more of Kate Bauer's beautiful artwork on her website at http://milkandhoneybread.com or in her Etsy shop at www.etsy.com/shop/MilkandHoneyBread!
Have a great weekend!

Today I'm sharing my newest art journal pages! These pages incorporate a kraft tag and 7gypsies papers from Canvas Corp along with StencilGirl Products – Carolyn Dube's Fridge Poetry stencil, Mary Beth Shaw's Hash Marks, and Andrew Borloz's Screw Heads Small and Screw Heads Mini stencils! This spread about keeping a sense of humor about our imperfections measures 12" x 18" in my art journal.

Of course there are lots of layers of acrylic paints, mark-making, and scribble writing, too! I also added washi tape and pen doodling. I incorporated one of my favorite techniques as well: I used my Jet Black Ranger Archival ink pad and a fingertip sponge daubers to stencil words from Fridge Poetry, then removed the stencil and connected the bridges of the letters with my Sakura black Identi-Pen. Below are details:

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Have a wonderful and creative week!

This Friday’s featured artist is Rachel Sager and her amazing map mosaic series entitled Terra Incognita!
The texture and details are amazing! I love her color palette, too!

See more of Rachel Sager's amazing artwork on her website at www.rachelsagermosaics.com!
Have a great weekend!

This Friday's featured artist is Amy Hevron and her lovely maps!
Amy loves maps and has been having fun illustrating maps this year.
I recently learned about Amy when her work was showcased on They Draw And Travel.

Amy's bio is amazing! From her website:

Amy Hevron is a freelance illustrator, designer, and children's book author living in Seattle, Washington.
She attended Texas State University where she received a BFA in Graphic Design (1997). She is also currently working towards her certificate in Natural Science Illustration from the University of Washington.
​Prior to freelancing, Amy worked as an art director and designer at design firms and game companies.

​In both 2015 and 2016, she received the Portfolio Honor Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Amy draws inspiration from wildlife, nature, and travel. Her medium of choice is acrylic on wood.

See more of Amy Hevron's charming and inspiring artwork on her website at www.amyhevron.com!
Have a wonderful weekend!

If you ever have a chance to take a workshop with Seth Apter, do it!
While taking 52 Card Pick Up and Collage Camp at Ephemera Paducah, I learned about building layers,
mark-making, integrating collage into mixed media,
and got caught up in the wonderful momentum of the creative process!
The fast-pace especially of 52 Card Pick Up made it impossible (in a good way!) for me to deliberate on decisions in my art-making. I worked from my heart and intuition – ​it was the right-side of my brain all the way!
It was truly a transformative weekend for me – one that continues to propel me and my artwork.

I cannot say enough good things about Roxanne Coble's Lyrical online art journal class!
I feel like this class was made for me! For so long, I incorporated scribbled song lyrics into art journal pages.
Roxanne, however, helped me to create an entire body of work in my art journal inspired by the song lyrics of Van Morrison. Roxanne shares various mixed media techniques, the concept of synesthesia, composition and the use of a focal point, typography (and the designing of three different hand drawn fonts), tiered paint layering, art journal mediums such as oil and pan pastels, and finishing details. Roxanne is incredibly organized, and I use the class PDF she created often as a reference. I really want to take an in-person workshop with Roxanne one day! 

I love lettering! Lettering is so relaxing for me!
Currently, I'm taking Drawin' Letters by artist Megan Wells, of Makewells!
Megan's videos and exercises and PDFs are delightful!
And I love that there is no required supply list for this class. 

I'm signed up for Get Scripty and Letter Outside the Lines, too!!

My countdown has officially begun to StencilGirl & Friends: An Art Journal Affair at Ephemera Paducah!
Four Rockstar Instructors. Two full days and nights with nothing to think about but Art Journaling.
Coordinated workshops will be taught by Seth Apter, Traci Bautista, Pam Carriker and Mary Beth Shaw.
A ton of art journaling techniques will be explored during this art retreat!

And there's this – At the Improv: a two-day art workshop with Seth Apter and Mary Beth Shaw at her studio in November!! It's going to be two days filled with mixed media techniques, creating backgrounds, texture, incorporating collage, color, mark-making, and dimension! The class size is limited to 12 students, and I am so lucky I got in! The last time I took a workshop with Seth and Mary Beth at her studio was a dream come true! It's like they were born to co-teach! Seriously!

I'd love to hear what art workshops you've enjoyed taking and what you're learning, too!
​Have a great week!

This Friday's featured artist is Nicole Duquette of Hello Niccoco and her delightful maps!

Nicole writes:
Inspired by my home state of Pennsylvania, my illustrated maps have blossomed into a self driven project of creating a design for each of the states. As I "journeyed" across the USA, custom inquires popped up in my inbox and I got to venture into new areas inspired by my clients. This process has combined my love of research and history through these colorful maps highlighting the fun touristy destinations and local favorites.

Learn more about Nicole Duquette and her fun artwork on her website at www.helloniccoco.com.
See lots more of her state map art in her Etsy shop, too, at www.etsy.com/shop/helloniccoco!

Have a great weekend!

I am layering LOTS of StencilGirl Products in these two pages – stencils both old and new!
In the lower left-hand corner, I've incorporated Terri Stegmiller's Tire Tracks 6 – because who doesn't need some tire tracks in their travel-themes pages!!

In the detailed photo below, I've also included the suitcase image from Let's Go 2! I used my StazOn Midi in Ganache on a label I painted ahead of time with Seth Apter's PaperArtsy Buff paint. Love this color combination because it gives the images the vintage look I’m going for! I also added Andrew Borloz's Floating Cubes A stenciled in StazOn Teal Blue and Floating Cubes B stenciled in StazOn Ganache.

I've also included It's a Small World Latitude on underpaper:

And those wonderful cross marks are from Seth Apter's Alpha Drips stencil!

And who can go on a long, long, long, long drive without Nathalie Kalbach's Old Timer stencil?